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Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
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Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.
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In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
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The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.
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Reality is what I see, not what you see.
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Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
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A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
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Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.
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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.
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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
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